S.0. Beeton, 1977. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Facsimile. Red cloth, xxxix, 1112pp. Illustrated. Fine in a fine but lightly sunned d/w. Beeton's popular work contains everything you ever wanted to know about 19th century Victorian housekeeping, valet, butlers, maids, and laundry service. More
Calgary: Best of Bridge Publishing Limited, 1980. Soft cover. 7" x 10" Orig. pictorial card covers, plastic coil binding. 215 pp. Colour photographs. Hand-lettered by Norm W. Hodgins. Rubbing and creasing to covers. More
Paris: Societe d'Editions Litteraires Francaises. Hardcover. 16mo. N.d., [19--?]. Pictorial paper boards. 512 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Boards age toned. Front hinge shaken. Small chip to fore edge of ffep. Interior age toned. More
Midland, ON: Georgian Bay Gourmets' Company, 1980. Soft cover. 7.25" x 10" Pictorial card covers, metal coil binding. vi, 221 pp. Numerous colour photographs. Some bumping to edges and scuffing to covers, else fine. More
s.l. s.n., 1921. Hardcover. 18mo. Full brown cloth. 216 pp. A few stains to cloth. Chafing to extremities. Staining to endpapers. Near fine. More
New York: Sheldon Blakeman & Co., 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. blind stamped cloth with lettered spine. viii, 9-394 pp. Cloth a little worn, mostly rubbed quite heavily and foxed. Gilt on spine dulled. New front endpaper. First and last few leaves foxed..... More
Toronto: Rose Publishing Company. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [N.d., ca. 1879]. Full marbled cloth. Wear to spine ends and corners. Wear, scuffing and white marks to boards. Ink ownership inscription dated 1892 to front pastedown. Cracking to front hinge, short tears to ffep at head and foot of gutter. Age..... More
Montpelier: E.P. Walton & Sons, 1848. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 18mo. Walton's second edition. New quarter black cloth, orig. green printed paper boards. 108 pp. Engraved frontis. Wear to orig boards. Pencil notes to endpapers. Foxing and staining to interior. More
Edinburgh: J.B. Fairgrieve, 1909. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Tenth and enlarged edition. Orig. brown cloth. xii, 247, [5 pp. blank memoranda pages]. Recently professionally rebacked, orig. spine laid down, new endpapers. Cloth is damp stained and rubbed, worse at extremities.Deeply toned to interior (wood pulp paper)..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898. 4th Edition. Soft cover. 18mo. Orig. blue cloth-covered card wraps, sewn binding. 62 pp. Rubbing to extremities, some staining and some light cockling to cloth. A few pencil notations to text. More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter blue cloth, tan paper boards. 185 pp. Rubbing to spine ends, toning to edges of boards, bruise to upper corner of front board. Spine tilted. Stain to top corner of text block. Dust..... More
London: Methuen, 1916. Hardcover. 12mo. 146 (8) p.p. Cloth. No jacket. Some dampstains to front boards. Light discolouration to spine and edges of boards. Small scratch to rear board. Wear along edges of boards, some scratches, and owner inscription to front endpaper. Jessie Georgina Sime was an Scottish born Canadian..... More
Louisville, KY: Favorite Recipes Press, 1965. Hardcover. 16mo. 1965 reproduction of 1879 edition, published by John P. Morton and Company. Maroon paper boards, gilt decoration to boards. xviii, 528 pp. Reproductions of original endpapers and ads at rear. Rubbing to extremities, scuff to head of front board, bump to spine..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1965. Hardcover. 18mo. LCL No. 168. Greek and English. Orig. olive green cloth. xxix, 531 pp. Dust jacket price clipped, lightly sunned and bumped to extremities with a few small chips and short tears, staining to spine. More